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Great save! Falling iPhone X gets caught mid-air on a roller coaster

Daniel Petrov

by Daniel Petrov / Sep 11, 2019, 9:17 AM

Never catch a falling knife, say stockbrokers about big sellouts, but a falling iPhone? That one is a go. Man gets on a crazy fast rollercoaster, man shouts with excitement, man catches the iPhone X of someone above, or in front, or sideways. The speed of the Spanish rollercoaster in question was once the fastest in Europe, and that certainly helped equal the gravitational pull when the iPhone X was accelerating towards Mother Earth with a vengeance.

It certainly helped that the catcher Samuel Kemp is in the New Zealand's Fistballing team and knows a thing or two about quick reactions. The ride was going with 80 miles per hour, yet catching the iPhone looks like a piece of cake in the video above. Here's how Kemp himself described the incident:

I was in Spain at Port Aventura on shambhala ride and saw the person a few rows ahead drop their IPhone X. Long story short, I caught it. This roller coaster is moving at over 130kms... was once Europe's tallest and fastest coaster.. only recently beaten.

He couldn't believe it, he gave me a big hug... The funniest reaction was when we had got off the rollercoaster and you go down to look at the photos and videos they take and half the people there seemed to be watching our screen and then everyone started cheering and clapping when it happened.

All is well when it ends well, and the guy who was looking for the phone on the ground when Kemp landed, was so happy to reunite with it, that he bought out the video in question as a token of gratitude.

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11 Comments

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1. pchetan2

Posts: 8; Member since: Oct 04, 2017

"Introducing our new iPhone that automatically falls into hands of a nearest person. We call this the iProtection"

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 9:27 AM 9

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9. NarutoKage14

Posts: 1324; Member since: Aug 31, 2016

Until it hits someone's skull at 50mph and puts them in a comma.

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 12:33 PM 4

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2. handsomparis

Posts: 122; Member since: Jun 11, 2015

The moment you realize you don’t have Apple care lol

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 9:40 AM 8

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3. NarutoKage14

Posts: 1324; Member since: Aug 31, 2016

The guy showed off them mad Skittles! This is one of those stories that you can tell for years.

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 10:03 AM 0

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4. izim1

Posts: 1599; Member since: Feb 04, 2013

I would've caught it, then tossed it. What part of "dont bring your stuff on rollercoasters" is so hard for people to understand?

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 10:29 AM 5

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8. NarutoKage14

Posts: 1324; Member since: Aug 31, 2016

Truth. At those speeds that phone could have caused a severe injury.

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 12:32 PM 1

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5. shiv179

Posts: 169; Member since: Aug 08, 2012

Slow news day?

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 10:45 AM 2

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6. JRPG_Guy

Posts: 144; Member since: Jan 13, 2019

Nice save

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 12:20 PM 0

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7. j_grouchy

Posts: 177; Member since: Nov 08, 2016

I probably would've ducked if I saw something flying toward me.

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 12:27 PM 0

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10. cmdacos

Posts: 4220; Member since: Nov 01, 2016

Pretty sure the owner threw it away, they didn't lose it

posted on Sep 11, 2019, 12:54 PM 3

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